CYBERSECURITY

Attack was from a network of 24,000 computer systems and IoT devices.

PageGroup reportedly confirmed it discovered the data breach on 1 November.

The NSA whistleblower urged people to address issues regarding politics and surveillance.

The hackers targeted US-based universities, think tanks, NGOs and the government.

A Moscow court on 10 November ruled that the company had breached the country's data protection rules.

Yahoo is facing 'at least' 23 putative class action lawsuits after major hack.

Outgoing US government has accused Russia of attempting to influence the 2016 election.

FBI got a warrant to hack TorMail users accessing child porn sites, but then it illegally hacked others.

Offending websites that repeatedly spread harmful content will be branded 'repeat offenders' for 30 days.

The hacker group sent out spear-phishing emails to various international governments.

At the time of writing, the NCA website kept going offline intermittently.

The threat actors operating the malware appear to be only targeting smartphones with a Russian-language interface.

German journalists have discovered that a trusted browser extension has been selling on user data.

Yes, Trump's been elected, but Canada isn't exactly perfect either, as a recent federal court ruling shows.

The attack is believed to have lasted for a week, starting in late October and ending on 3 November.

The attack also reportedly affected Republican phone lines.

The same Mirai malware was used to take down a part of the internet in the US and UK in October.

One of the four targeted banks' websites remained offline at 5am GMT on 9 November.

WikiLeaks urged its supporters to download 'insurance' files for 'safekeeping'.

The bank says that it has now refunded all of the customer accounts affected by the fraud.

The hackers identified themselves as Kapustkiy and Kasimierz and claimed they wanted to point out security weaknesses.

The bug was disclosed to Google on 20 October.

The agency deployed a network investigative technique, which was designed to grab the real IP addresses of the users.

The law is set to go into effect in June 2017.

A brief Twitter outage saw conspiracy theories swirl among users.

As the US presidential election approaches, WikiLeaks continues publishing.

The 32nd batch of Podesta emails was released during the final weekend of the race to the White House.

Qatari officials had pledged the money in 2011 to mark the 65th birthday of Bill Clinton.

WikiLeaks has released the 30th batch of Podesta emails, bringing the total number of published documents to over 47,000.